You pick up an audio cd of your favorite band, push it in and press play. Its sound rises and tickles your ears, enters your head room and sends you lost in a world created by it. Your feet starts to tap showing your first signs of getting possessed, then slowly your head starts to follow your feet and by the time you know it you're swaying your hands, legs and body to the sound. What kind of power does it have to make us move so uncontrollably? It takes the front seat and drives us in the way it wants. It acts as a drug and has become an addiction to most of us.
Music has existed for years and has evolved into different kinds of sound/style/ genre like rock, jazz, pop, blues, metal, reggae etc. It is presently evolving into different sounds now with the coming of new young artist and new genres are getting discovered like ska, nu-metal, grunge etc. Rock genre is also getting sub -divided into soft and hard rock. Music genre in itself is a vast chapter. Every sound/style/genre appeals to different ears from different places, up-bringing, influences etc.
For most music has act as a second voice, to speak what they fear or express feeling that have been bottled up inside. It allows them to vent out emotions that have been suppressed. "If u can't say it, sing it out!" says a musician. The legendary musicians in the past like Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix etc have sung song protesting against the chaotic ruling of the government, discrimination, war etc. Music also has the power to heal. It has been used for people suffering from depression, people going through traumatic experiences. A man was brought back from his coma to reality after he was made to listen to a song by the Beatles which was said to be one of his favorites. Music acts as a pad protecting people from the violent jerks in life. Music can be destructive as well. There have been many cases where people possessed/ influenced by the music have gone on a killing spree. Shoot out in schools in America have pointed to music as the source influence and motivator. The famous Woodstock concert has also been banned since its last concert in the year 1999 where many a hundred have lost their lives.
Music has got so much energy and power that can make you tap your feet and move your head unconsciously. It can send a party animal dancing for hours non- stop. It can calm a hungry roaring lion and even mentally massage your brain. Music influences your life style, what you wear, how you speak, how you think etc. Music has and will influence people in some way or the other. Like everything in the world music has been left open for everyone, it only depends on how one uses it. As for now we can only think and wonder the power it has that knows no boundaries.
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